As the saying went: those who set traps for others would eventually fall into one themselves.
Though Wang Ning had not yet realized that this saying had come true for him, what he was facing now was precisely what it described—he had been screwed over by Zhuge Lian!
Everything had proceeded according to plan, but with a slight deviation.
Yin Kuang, Tan Shengge, and the other eight approached Zhu Tong's base from eight directions. About three kilometers from the castle, there was a moderately sized patch of woods to the northwest, where Qian Qianqian was located. There, Qian Qianqian was ambushed by Pseudo-Sasuke and took an enormous Fireball Jutsu head-on. In an instant, the not-too-large, not-too-small forest was engulfed in flames. Fire attacks did very limited damage to Qian Qianqian, so she successfully retreated beyond the flames' reach and, as Yin Kuang and Beidao had instructed beforehand, crushed the team teleportation crystal—thus, everything proceeded according to plan. However, an unexpected development occurred at that very moment.
After launching his attack, Pseudo-Sasuke immediately retreated, leaving behind only a Shadow Clone to stall them. Yet the teleportation crystal had not brought everyone over. Wang Ning was missing. Fortunately, the academy students had long since developed the reflexes needed to deal with any possible unexpected situation. In an instant, they understood: they had fallen for Zhu Tong's tactic of luring the tiger from the mountain and making a feint in the east while attacking in the west. Their true target was Wang Ning!
Wang Ning looked at Pseudo-Seiya, who stood not far away in golden armor with golden wings strapped to his back. Feeling waves of pain radiating from his chest, a sentence suddenly surfaced in his mind: The hunter had spent his life hunting geese, only to be pecked in the eye